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Improve the lives of people with serious or chronic medical conditions and of those who care for them.

Effectively apply software and the social web to the field of health for the betterment of humanity.

Our Values

Respect

We respect what patients and medical professionals cope with on a day-to-day basis. We respect the patients’ and their caregivers’ rights to know all information about their medical conditions, whether positive or negative, whether or not disclosed to them by their medical team. We respect the professionalism and interests of medical professionals involved in helping people prolong and improve their lives. We respect our partners, employees, healthcare professionals, and other stakeholders, and will treat them with the respect they deserve.

Innovation

We will continuously innovate our offerings (including the services we provide) as well as our marketing and business models. We will never rest on our laurels and will not fear cannibalizing our solutions. We expect and encourage innovation to come from anyone, including our users.

Perseverance

We don’t expect our mission to be completely realized overnight. In fact, we believe ongoing success can only come with hard and continuous effort. Obstacles will be overcome to achieve our mission.

Optimism + Realism

We blend optimism with realism. Our vision is bold, and we are optimistic that we will achieve it. However, we must be realistic in that pursuit. We will not tolerate persistent pessimism nor mistake it for realism.

Life First

We are here to improve and prolong lives. We will not do so by draining the life of all those involved in Medivizor. We value life of our users, our partners, and our employees.

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Medivizor helps users understand and access medical information about serious or chronic diseases while providing the necessary context about where it came from. The unique platform combines patent-pending personalization technology with easy-to-understand synopses of complex medical material, and mixes in the wisdom of the crowd.
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Doctors often warn patients to avoid Internet searches of their medical conditions because there’s so much junk science that turn up on web searches. But there are certainly reliable websites out there that can provide valuable information like the American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute, which provide up-to-date resources for patients on a variety of cancers.
The main drawback of such sites, however, is that you may need to spend hours wading through the ton of information they contain to find answers to specific questions. Enter a free website called Medivizor, which allows patients to input information about their cancer, heart disease, or diabetes diagnosis as well as their age, gender, body weight, and other health factors in order to get a personalized report online with recommended links for further reading.
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Dr. Google's not all bad. But even if you're sold on the 24/7 availability of healthcare information online, the never-ending breadth of data out there is actually part of the problem. How are patients to find and discern what is truly valuable from it all?
By recommending the following resources to patients, you and your staff can both encourage patients to be self-empowered and deter them from being taken advantage of by (sometimes purposefully) inaccurate online advisers.
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LLS Community grows to nearly 5,000 users in one year. New collaboration with Medivizor will provide patients and caregivers with personalized, accurate and easy-to-understand medical information.
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At a time of rapid change, many systems have been faced with the urgent need to transform their business models. While some initiatives tend to take their current models and transform them to a digital platform, many others are creating initiatives that put more power and information into the hands of the individuals they are here to serve. Medivizor is one of them. By educating, informing and empowering the patient or caregiver with the latest medical science personally relevant to their specific medical circumstance affording them the peace of mind that they will know of new clinically relevant information without the need to spend endless amount of time seeking it themselves.
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LLS Community grows to nearly 5,000 users in one year. New collaboration with Medivizor will provide patients and caregivers with personalized, accurate and easy-to-understand medical information.
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Futuristic health tech on display at biomed conference in Tel AvivTimes of Israel May 25, 2017

From brain-monitoring electrodes to the mind-internet interface, the MIXiii BIOMED gathering provides a glimpse of what’s coming in healthcare (including Medivizor).
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How to improve health information online for our patientsUrology Times Jan 01, 2017

Active patient engagement and shared decision-making are the new normal in the patient-physician relationship. Reaching this goal can be challenging. In literature reviews and studies conducted on shared decision-making, a key requirement is an informed patient. Often, patients seek health care professionals to address problems they have difficulty describing. In particular, urologic issues tend to elicit either vivid descriptions or completely embarrassed silence from patients. With this type of starting point, sometimes the challenge of shared decision-making can be overwhelming. Through the process of diagnosis and treatment, we are often left trying to bridge the knowledge gaps and overcome the embarrassment barriers.
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This inaugural Entrepreneur Showcase was held at HackensackUMC’s John Theurer Cancer Center (JTCC) in which Dr. Andrew Pecora, HackensackUMC’s chief innovations officer and vice president of Cancer Services, Anthony delCampo, HackensackUMC’s executive director of the office of commercialization and technology ventures, and Tomas Gregorio, senior executive director of NJII’s healthcare delivery systems iLab, opened the day’s welcoming remarks in the spirit of bringing technology to the doorstep of Hackensack’s clinical teams.
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LAS VEGAS, NEV.-A U.S.-Israeli startup company - with substantial Canadian ties - has created the world's first "personalized health information service." The web-based solution pushes information about the latest medical research and treatments to subscribers and tailors that information to match their particular medical conditions.
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AARP is pleased to announce the ten finalist companies for its fifth Health Innovation@50+ LivePitch event which will be held Wednesday, April 27, at Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, CA. Ten startup health tech companies focused on caregiving were selected from over 200 applicants to pitch their businesses at this unique one day dual-pitch event. (Medivizor among the 10 finalists)
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(Translated in part by Google Translate): Medivizor: personalized and accurate information for chronic patients: Technological advances in the health field do not focus only on studies, experiments and clinical trials. There is a trend aimed at increasing the quantity and quality of information given to patients about their health condition. In cases of people suffering from chronic diseases , efforts are focused on improving their welfare and quality of life, through the deep understanding of their condition and the direct exchange with their doctors and other professionals whose experience has been become the cornerstone of digital medical tools. For patients, it is most important to have resources that facilitate access and select medically reliable content.
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One of the hottest sectors in the global health care industry is the digital health market, which is expected to grow to over $233 billion by 2020. The proliferation of Internet-connected medical devices and wearables, combined with the growing adoption of cloud computing and workflow management applications by health care organizations, are driving the health care industry’s shift to providing more efficient medical solutions at more affordable prices... Here are two examples of Israeli companies disrupting health care:...
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Janet Kennedy interviewing Tal Givoly on her podcast: One of the biggest challenges in fighting a chronic or serious illness is wading through and understanding the thousands (or millions) of articles, posts, and research studies that can be found online. Medivizor has a solution for that problem by providing personalized health research curation based on a detailed questionnaire completed by a subscriber. On Get Social Health, I have a conversation with Medivizor CEO Tal Givoly about providing patients with research that is vetted for accuracy and relevancy. Catch our conversation or drop in at time stamps below.
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At a time of rapid change, many systems have been faced with the urgent need to transform their business models. While some initiatives tend to take their current models and transform them to a digital platform, many others are creating initiatives that put more power and information into the hands of the individuals they are here to serve. Medivizor is one of them. By educating, informing and empowering the patient or caregiver with the latest medical science personally relevant to their specific medical circumstance affording them the peace of mind that they will know of new clinically relevant information without the need to spend endless amount of time seeking it themselves.
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Rethinking online health information: How about personalization?Official Journal of the International Hospital Federation Sep 01, 2015

Published in World Hospitals and Health Services, The Official Journal of the International Hospital Federation, 2015 Volume 51 Number 3: Dr. Howard Koh, Former Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) explained, “While [health literacy] may not necessarily attract headlines, it is absolutely at the core of everything we do as health care... professionals.” Yet making health information that is searched for on the Internet accessible means not only reducing jargon but also reducing volume. Personalization is one answer that Medivizor, a start-up featured in Forbes, has developed to answer the need. Hospitals and providers partner with Medivizor to improve the health literacy of patients, enhancing engagement and collaborative decision-making.
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Israel tech firms are taking the lead in mobile healthThe Times of Israel Jul 15, 2015

Through apps or the web, mHealth is providing more personalized healthcare without a visit to the doctor’s office.
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Improving health outcomes by delivering personalized, accessible and timely medical information curated from thousands of scientific journals and clinical trials. Tal Givoly is disrupting the mobile health industry and how patients and caregivers use the internet. Why? He has a better way where medical information is personalized, updated, understandable, and most importantly, actionable for patients and their caregivers.
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PARIS, June 8, 2015 (TICsanté) (by Google Translate) - The Doctors 2.0 & You Conference, which was held in Paris on Thursday and Friday, returned to the use of data in specific cases linked to cancers, diabetes, infections or 3D printing... Several innovations in digital health were presented at the conference. The company Medivizor , who won in 2014 the first prize of "Doctors 2.0 & You contest start-ups", aims to help patients from becoming "chronic researchers on the internet," said his Co-founder, Tal Givoly. This network of experts specializing in online curation of medical information designed to meet the difficulties of patients to find reliable information for them. "90% of the information one finds on Google is irrelevant, redundant , outdated or unreliable, " explained Tal Givoly. The aim of the service is to provide a personalized summary of the state of the art according to the patient's needs. Less than a year after launching the service, several US hospitals have already adopted the service.
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Dr. Google's not all bad. But even if you're sold on the 24/7 availability of healthcare information online, the never-ending breadth of data out there is actually part of the problem. How are patients to find and discern what is truly valuable from it all?
By recommending the following resources to patients, you and your staff can both encourage patients to be self-empowered and deter them from being taken advantage of by (sometimes purposefully) inaccurate online advisers.
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This is the first in a series of profiles highlighting the physicians that are part of the #BCSM Community. Specifically, she addresses the issue of where patients could find reliable information online.
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Israel's Medical AchievementsUnited with Israel Feb 23, 2015

Sick? Medivizor Thinks for YouWeet Magazine Feb 23, 2015

Seriously Ill. You will only get the message. From that moment your life takes a different turn. Everything now runs only to that one. The treatment is started. You worry. Will it go well? Do the doctors there know everything? Do they know of the latest study results? The new free tool - Medivizor -can be your help at hand.
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Among a long list of innovations associated with Israel, Medivizor: Winning medical advice. (Israel21c) Israeli startup Medivizor uses patent-pending technology to find the most essential information applicable for each individual’s medical situation. Medivizor won 4 prestigious competitions in 2014, was highlighted by Forbes and is recommended by doctors to their patients.
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(translated from Mandarin by Google Translate) Here in Israel in 2015 to present you 10 of the most noteworthy Internet healthcare companies.Innovation and entrepreneurship practices from the kingdom, will bring inspiration how Chinese companies?
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The Google of MedicineJerusalem Post Jan 01, 2015

Medicine and technology have been advancing in tandem during recent decades. You’re searching for information on diseases and find yourself drowning in the endless results you get? The start-up Medivizor developed a website that offers a targeted search after answering a few questions.
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A personalized health information app just trounced 50 other startups to win the mHealth Israel Conference competition. The winner of the mobile health startup contest was Medivizor, a company that helps people coping with serious or chronic illness get cutting-edge, reliable, health information.
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Most health information available on the Internet suffers from one major flaw: It’s likely to be irrelevant. That’s right: The Mayo Clinic and WebMD illness pages you find through a Google search after being diagnosed with a condition are mostly generic and often useless for your particular situation.
Tal Givoly, cofounder of Medivizor, envisions a different experience. According to Givoly, Medivizor is a web-based platform that can deliver personalized information about patient’s condition, translating it from medical jargon into plain, readable English.
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The 1776 Challenge Cup headed to Tel Aviv this evening to hear solutions from dozens of Israeli startups. The event featured a packed audience of investors, entrepreneurs and tech community members. Altogether, about 40 startups presented their ideas in the categories of education, energy, health and mobility & cities.
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A doctor blogging about his experience with Medivizor and Medivizor MD pilot in which he's participating: We’ve all used Google to self diagnose our various medical conditions, right? Were they enjoyable or efficient experiences? I doubt it! While I’m very good at sifting through “doctor Google” for urology conditions, I’m very bad at rummaging through non-urology conditions and information outside of my specialty training. After being a patient several times during the last few years, I noticed I used Google even more poorly in that role.
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Medivizor helps users understand and access medical information about serious or chronic diseases while providing the necessary context about where it came from. The unique platform combines patent-pending personalization technology with easy-to-understand synopses of complex medical material, and mixes in the wisdom of the crowd.
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Radio interview on Late Night Health hosted by Mark Alyn.
Tal Givoly – CEO and co-founder of Medivizor – A discussion on how Medivizor can save you time and possibly a life by providing the most current information about serious diseases.
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Doctors often warn patients to avoid Internet searches of their medical conditions because there’s so much junk science that turn up on web searches. But there are certainly reliable websites out there that can provide valuable information like the American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute, which provide up-to-date resources for patients on a variety of cancers.
The main drawback of such sites, however, is that you may need to spend hours wading through the ton of information they contain to find answers to specific questions. Enter a free website called Medivizor, which allows patients to input information about their cancer, heart disease, or diabetes diagnosis as well as their age, gender, body weight, and other health factors in order to get a personalized report online with recommended links for further reading.
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Medivizor Announces Its Advisory BoardMedivizor Jun 30, 2014

The new Advisory Board’s diverse, highly skilled brain trust brings together expertise in medicine, science, health technology, patient advocacy, and business to help guide the strategic direction of Medivizor’s award-winning service.
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Doctors 2.0 & You Announced the Results of the 4th Edition International Digital Health Start-up Contest: 1st place for Medivizor (Israel) and 2nd place for Medexo (Germany).
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How a diverse team leads to better accesseMed / Entrepreneurship.org Jun 03, 2014

Access -- to providers, patients, payers, or anyone who can make a healthcare startup successful -- is a sticking point for many early-stage entrepreneurs. Building a diverse team has helped Medivizor, a startup that provides a personalized digest of state-of-the-art science for people with chronic conditions, find a variety of ways to connect with key stakeholders, said co-founder and CEO Tal Givoly.
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Interview with Medivizor's CEO Tal GivolymHealthSpot May 29, 2014

mHealth Spot had a chance to interview Medivizor's CEO Tal Givoly and ask him few questions about his business.
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In a bid to boost health literacy and to improve the interactions between physicians and patients, Medivizor has massively expanded its healthcare content platform for patients in the past year and has added some interesting collaborations.
It has expanded its content generation platform from a handful of diseases such as diabetes, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer to include more than 400 medical conditions. It’s also working with several clinics that “prescribe” Medivizor to their patients. Among the medical institutions it is working with are Lowell General Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center.
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Making The Most of Social Media After a Cancer DiagnosisComing Together to Fight Cancer May 14, 2014

If and or when you or someone you love gets diagnosed with a disease you are going to have a lot of questions. And as mentioned in a previous blog, Doctors Aren’t Gods, it is inadvisable to blindly turn over your trust to a doctor. Even if you do, they may advise you about choices that you have, and the more and better informed you are, the better position you will be in to make a choice that is in line with your wishes. If you google search things like cancer, heart disease or diabetes, you’ll get over 200 million responses in less than .3 seconds (assuming a good broadband/DSL internet connection)....
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Doctors 2.0 & You, “THE international healthcare social media conference in Europe, “announced today the names of the digital health start-up candidates who will compete in the start-up contest, June 5-6, 2014 on the campus of Cité Universitaire Internationale in Paris. The finalists hail from Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Spain.
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Catching up with MedivizorTelehealth & Telecare Aware Apr 02, 2014

This Editor had a quick catchup this week with Medivizor’s CEO and co-founder, Tal Givoly, at the introduction of Eco-Fusion (a personalized wellness/tech fusion service founded by Dr. Oren Fuerst, Medivizor executive chairman and co-founder; more on this when it goes to market). Medivizor’s USP is that it provides free, personalized, research-level information on serious or chronic health conditions based on specific user information.
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Product Update: New Service from IVF-WorldwideOBG Management Mar 26, 2014

Targeted treatment and clinical trial information is available through IVF-Worldwide, a broad-based, open-access journal that publishes current information on in vitro fertilization (IVF), genetics, and stem cell therapy. Physicians and clinics can now offer information to patients through a cooperative agreement between IVF-Worldwide and Medivizor, an Internet platform that provides consumer-based medical information.
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New eBook: Top 2013 Breast Cancer PapersMedivizor Mar 26, 2014

Medivizor experts selected some of the most important breast cancer research papers published in 2013 and compiled the service’s summaries and interpretations of them into a free eBook.
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Niche playersJerusalem Post Mar 19, 2014

By Bernard Dichek in The Jerusalem Report: From bloodless circumcision to personalized medical searches, Israeli medical entrepreneurs are coming up with ideas to solve unmet problems.
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....One more thing before I end…have you noticed the Medivizor ad on the left of the website? It’s a terrific resource for all us dealing with Lynch syndrome and other health issues.
If you have a serious or chronic medical condition, Medivizor can help. Sign up for free to receive information and subsequent updates about cutting-edge research,treatment options, relevant clinical trials, and more – personalized just for you.
I highly recommend you sign up for their medical updates. You won’t need a medical degree in order to understand the research, treatment options, and the clinical trials they discuss; but most importantly Medivizor will help you become a better advocate for your own health.
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Digital tools are guiding patients through care experiences and individual procedures ensuring a better end to end experience: A side effect of the vast amounts of information at our disposal is the desire to know more. Our digital resources provide a seemingly infinite amount of data, but also raise new questions, which we may never have thought to consider in the first place. This is effect is only amplified when it comes to our own health, as new research about our symptoms or treatments might lead us down a rabbit hole of half truths and undue anxiety. In the latest Future of Health report, PSFK Labs noticed how a number of patient-centered services are helping alleviate this situation by arming individuals with timely guidance and support before, during and after their treatments.
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I don’t like messages “pushed” at me online. But I’ve found a resource – Medivizor.com – that does exactly that, yet benefits me. Medivizor sources the specific things I’m interested to learn more about in diabetes, and sends them directly to me. Medivizor is a new and unique online health information service that personalizes health information for patients, caregivers and medical professionals, and sends it to you via email. The service is free and the information is specific and relevant to your condition, situation, needs and interests.
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Each business has a story. No matter if the business is a Goliath like Wal-Mart, or a local business owned by a couple or family, the business has roots in an idea. For each business owner, the story of their journey can range from monetary needs or the passion for a unique project. Each story is different though the reasons may remain the same. No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each and every brand.
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A quick Google search for "breast cancer information" yields 220million hits in two-tenths of a second.
That's great stuff—but seriously??? How can anyone be expected to sort through that much online medical information to find what's pertinent? Is it outdated? Is it reliable?
I'm a person who needs to be involved in my treatment. Back in 2006, it took four months from the doctor seeing the spot on a routine mammogram to being diagnosed with invasive lobular breast cancer. During that time, I spent hours researching on Google only to have a curveball thrown at me when I went back to the doctor and he said, "Oh no, that doesn't pertain to you."
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Whether you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, a specific type of cancer, or hemophilia, the information that you need could be very different than the generalized information provided on most medical websites. Medivizor is a new website that allows you to get precisely the research and information you specifically need for your personalized healthcare needs. And the best part: it’s totally free.
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Social media is a radical shift in the way we communicate. The healthcare conversation is no longer a one-way narrative but is evolving into a global, participatory discussion. If you want to find where that discussion is most visibly and influentially taking place you need look no further than Twitter. Here you will find the latest healthcare news, the most innovative medical research and the conversations that matter to health consumers discussed in real-time across the globe. Physicians, nurses, medical and health researchers and other allied healthcare professionals interact with patients, pharmaceutical representatives, support groups, opinion leaders, and anyone with an interest in healthcare.
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Dr. Kaplan joins Grand Magazine Radio today to share how a patient or patient advocate can empower themselves with the powerful new service provided by Medivizor. This service enables to the patient to focus on the specific disease or condition that they suffer from while information is delivered to them from medical experts around the world.
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eMed's 6 to follow in entrepreneurshipeMed Dec 01, 2013

Many things can make you a better entrepreneur. But here's one that certainly helps: networking. So every week eMed is going to highlight some healthcare and life science entrepreneurs on twitter you should consider following. This is not an endorsement, but an encouragement. Entrepreneurship is better when everyone joins the conversation. So please join us by following @emedcommunity and participating on eMed at Entrepreneurship.org.
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From the program "Your Family Matters" hosted by Dr. Keith Kanner. Dr. Kanner interviews Tal Givoly (CEO of Medivizor) about Medivizor. The full interview, originally aired as one segment in a 3-segment show on http://radioactivebroadcasting.net (specifically at http://bit.ly/1dRZOwr).
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Medivizor’s Donation Campaign of ThanksMedivizor Nov 20, 2013

Medivizor has launched a donation campaign from now till New Years Day 2014. For every person who signs up to Medivizor with one of three conditions (breast cancer, diabetes, prostate cancer), Medivizor will donate to a chosen cause.
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This is How You'll Get the Health Information You NeedGlobes Israel Nov 09, 2013

(Translated from Hebrew) Medivizor was born to meet the needs of its founders . Oren Fuerst, one of the founders says: "When my mother got sick I became the designated "case manager" of the disease - I tried to navigate the tangle of bureaucracy, choose the best doctors and treatments best to understand along with why a particular treatment is chosen and what should be the warning signs that something was wrong ."
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Founder and CEO of Medivizor, Tal demonstrated the community aspect of health care through technology that provides comprehensive medical profiles for patients. Medivizor is able to give relevant health information to the user, instead of scaring the person with the abundance of information currently available on the web. Tal has a long proven track record in “realizing visions,” both in startups from inception and in multinational corporations and Health 2.0 was happy to host such a bright member of the health technology space.
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(Translated via Google Translate from Google. Go to source to read original)
Pew Internet and American Life According to the results of a survey conducted by the Internet, which will research health information Google uses the first 8 out of every 10 people. To the fact that none of the data is not very surprising results. We are resorting to major search engines first when searching for information on the Internet and Google are the most popular in the search engines. Google's internet users, the undisputed quality of service, but when things get health information subject to change. Internet users when they use Google to find health information, or information obtained can be routed point is often inaccurate or incomplete. In California, the Health 2.0 event in Santa Clara, one of the topics of conversation that is exactly the situation the online source of health information, the right to direct patients.
Tal, CEO and founder of Medivizor'un Givoly: "Now, people when they are sick internet as per first undergo. If they do they often remain under a lot of information and misinformation yönlendirilebiliyorlar flood. "He said.
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Recent data from the Pew Internet and American Life project found that 8 in 10 online health inquiries start at a search engine like Google, a number that hasn’t changed since 2000. But medical information from a search engine is often incomplete or untrustworthy, and isn’t always enough information to answer specific questions. At the Health 2.0 event in Santa Clara, California this week, several creators of online patient communities talked about their approaches to connecting patients with health information online.
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When Anne Marie heard the "C" word she reacted as we all do. Shock, denial and then self advocacy. She discovered a free web site Medivizor that linked her to Doctor's and research world wide that helped walk her through her treatment and recovery. A passionate recounting of personal strength and the power of finding an online advocate.
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Medivizor, which was one of the better discoveries of our CE Week (NYC) coverage and the H20NYC/Healthcare Pioneers evening back in July [TTA 3 July], has moved out of what was a largely private beta to what they interestingly term a ‘public beta’.
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When people are diagnosed with a disease, the first move they, or their family members typically make is to book a long appointment with Dr. Google or WebMD. A New York-based startup named Medivizor thinks they’re making a mistake. Now it will get its shot to prove it.
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Medivizor Makes its Health Information Service Available to the PublicBusiness Wire (by Medivizor) Aug 20, 2013

Helping People with Serious or Chronic Illness Become More Knowledgeable about Their Unique Condition and Treatment Options, and Better Able to Collaborate with Their Doctor. After being accessible to a select group of users by invitation-only, Medivizor™, the innovative health information platform, is now available to the general public (in public beta) with expanded support for medical conditions including lung, colorectal, breast, and prostate cancer, as well as melanoma, diabetes, coronary artery disease, hypertension and stroke.
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Digital Inspiration: e-healthJungle Minds Aug 13, 2013

(original in Dutch - translated by Google translate).
This article is a review of 5 eHealth technologies including Medivizor.
The digitization has led to sweeping changes in the health industry. These developments may also named e-health. For example, self-control through online tools ensures that people can save a visit to the doctor time and costs. In the Netherlands we already see that fewer and fewer people go to the doctor, because they prefer first information about symptoms and diseases up on the internet (source: Gezondheidsnet).
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Are the days of Dr. Google numbered? Today, a range of digital health firms are working on ways to automatically deliver relevant, customized and personalized health content to consumers. These companies are ushering in an era where the act of using a search engine to find health content may become a quaint relic of the past. Learn about the rise of just-in-time health information systems, which promise to transform the way we find and consume health content forever.
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Medivizor - Site Review BellaOnline - The Voice of Women Jul 20, 2013

Who is Medivizor?
Medivizor is a company whose mission is to help patients with serious illnesses such as cancer, and their caregivers, by assimilating credible information gathered from both the internet and from their expert medical professionals, and deliver that relevant information to you, in plain language.
How Medivizor is Different
One search on the internet can yield hundreds of millions of results. And let's face it, we only get fifteen minutes with a doctor, and we always want to know more. We know we're not doctors but when it's our life on the line, we turn over every rock to try to find answers to all the gazillion questions that seem to go unanswered. Cancer patients often suffer from fatigue, and ease-of-use of a medical information site is important to us.
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Radio interview: Medivizor at Digital Health Summer SummitRadioActiveBroadcasting / The Business of Health Jul 06, 2013

Radio interview of Tal Givoly following talk at Digital Health Summer Summit, San Diego - June 13-14, 2013. The program was "The Business of Health". Interviewed by Barbara Beach.
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CEWeek 2013/Digital Health Summit
Four floors up, I sat with Tal Givoly, CEO and Oren Fuerst, PhD, Executive Chairman, of startup health information company Medivizor. Their ‘job to be done’ is to personalize the tidal wave of available health information for those with chronic and serious diseases. For this group, the current state is 1) too much information, 2) hard to interpret research and 3) difficult to determine if the information is applicable/relevant/reliable to their chronic condition or disease. By signing up, a patient or family member can receive a customized delivery of the most relevant information, ‘digested’ and interpreted at a 10th grade reading level, for free (and HIPAA compliant).
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Promoting a product or service is not something we normally do on this site, but we thought this service was too cool not tell our community about. For the past month or so, we have been talking to the people at Medivizor about their new tool and offerings for those struggling to find information about colon cancer by turning to web searches and “Dr. Google.”
Medivizor seeks to simplify this generic search and provide customized results based on specific conditions, diagnosis and treatment plans. Then deliver results directly to your inbox, including results of studies available only behind pay walls. Plus, it is free for patients and caregivers.
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It’s hard to keep up with the latest medical information out there, right? I’m sure you can relate to this. Our mom was diagnosed with colon cancer last November, so, naturally, my sister and I wanted to learn everything we could about her medical condition.
We jumped on the Internet to start our research, but it’s really exhausting work, sorting through the morass of information out there, trying to find information that’s relevant, credible and the least bit helpful. And way too much brainpower is wasted trying to figure out what most of it even means.
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PSFK Picks: Top Five Health Innovations of the WeekPSFK Jun 06, 2013

A wristband that reads your mood and a 3D printed ear that could give you super-human hearing.
The most innovative stories from the world of wellness. Each week PSFK.com with its partner Boehringer Ingelheim bring you a snapshot of Five Innovative Ideas that are reshaping the health care industry. This week’s innovations include a wristband that reads your mood and a 3D printed ear that could give you super-human hearing.
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I don’t know about you, but my inbox is bursting at the seams when it comes to emails about any all things diabetes related. I try and keep up, I really do. But I won’t lie to your or me for that matter, and I can’t keep track of all my diabetes emails, especially when it comes to diabetes studies, trials and the latest and greatest in diabetes news, re: breakthroughs, reports, etc. I’ve tried creating different diabetes folders for D studies, trials & news - And that works for a while, until it doesn’t....
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A few months ago, e-Patient Dave wrote a blog post highlighting a new Web property called Medivizor that is fulfilling the personalized health information future we’ve been sketching out for those subscribing to enmoebius bronze, our digital health research and advisory service. We focus on how Big Data, powerful computer programs and other technologies have the potential to transform how people seek health information. Today, when people proactively look for medical content, they start with a search engine like Google. However, we’ve suggested that the day is coming where significant numbers of people will instead rely on technologies that automatically filter and deliver health content for them. This is already happening in the news and information arena. For example, services like Zite leverage personal information people provide regarding their preferences and social connections to find and deliver relevant content.
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Trying to Change the World for the Better: Meet MedivizorHealth Communications and Health Advocacy May 18, 2013

“Medivizor’s vision is to improve the lives of people with serious medical conditions and those who care for them and to effectively apply software and the social web in the field of health for the betterment of humanity. This might sound like a lofty goal, and indeed, it is. We want to change the world for the better!”
As one satisfied patient, AnneMarie Ciccarella has pronounced, “Step Aside Dr. Google: Enter Medivizor.” As the CEO of Medivizor, Tal Givoly describes, “Today, when people become sick, they often use the web to find information. They find too much information. Much of it, irrelevant. Much of it, not easy to understand and interpret. Most frustrating [for them is] finding something that seems hopeful, and wasting precious time with [their] doctor [only] to be disappointed.”
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The internet is increasingly home to reams of information that patients can use to self-diagnose before they contact a health professional, but this wealth of data may either be poorly-researched or may not even be relevant to them. We’ve already seen Cureus try to tackle the first of these issues by placing peer-reviewed papers straight onto the web, and now Israel’s Medivizor is a search tool that offers results personalized to each user.
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One of the most important steps that anyone can take to become an empowered patient or an effective family caregiver is to learn about the condition one is dealing with. Books and online resources abound, but investing time and effort to finding and filtering this wealth of information can be all-consuming. Where do you look for reliable information? Once you find it, can you understand it? Does it apply to your condition? Most of us are not well-versed in the scientific or medical terminology that makes up most of the research papers one comes across on the internet. Would we be able to discuss these reports with our doctors?
Today, Medivizor is taking care of that problem!
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The search for online health information can quickly overwhelm most people. There is so much information available that it often requires users to sort through a maze of websites and medical information which may or may not be relevant. However a new startup aims to change that. Medivizor is a website that helps users sort through all the online health information to deliver relevant medical information.
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New Online Tool Helps Filter Diabetes NewsDiabetesMine Apr 26, 2013

Frankly, we’re always a little skeptical of new “services” that claim to personalize health information, especially when they’re supposed to carry some diabetes management or other health benefit. But hearing how it’s helped at least one fellow PWD makes this new one more credible, in our opinion.
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I typically avoid allowing companies to advertise their wares at robcares.com. However, I do make exceptions if I truly believe that the product or service could be incredibly beneficial to our readers. This is one of those cases.
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Welcome to the Medivizor BlogMedivizor Apr 25, 2013

Today we launch the Medivizor blog. To say we’re excited is an understatement. We’ll be hosting a variety of topics of interest to you, our community, and we welcome your input in this adventure. Here are some ideas of topics we’d like to cover.
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Enter Medivizor, a brand new online service designed to provide easy-to-understand customized information for people with serious medical conditions and for caregivers. With the potential to help others needing easy-to-grasp information, Medivizor is a promising tool and worth being excited about.
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Round-up of Digital Health: Medivizor...ScienceRoll Mar 25, 2013

I’ve recently come across 3 great initiatives in digital health.
Medivizor provides personalized information and updates for people with serious medical conditions.
Also in this round-up: GuidelinesForMe and instaRounds.
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When first diagnosed with cancer, most people turn to the internet in hopes of finding information to better understand their diagnosis and research options for treatment. But finding reliable, relevant information is no easy task. And when you do find such information, it is often challenging and confusing to understand unless you have a medical degree or PhD.
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Medivizor is a startup that culls literature and other resources, including the social web. They select portions relevant to you (based on a questionnaire and your feedback), rephrase it in ordinary language, and send it to you.
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When it comes to researching illnesses and symptoms online, the information age has its advantages and disadvantages. While the internet sometimes allows us to better understand our medical conditions and make informed decisions, it often leads to unnecessary concern, erroneous self-diagnosis and even false hope.
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The New York-based company has developed a personalized content system for people who have been diagnosed with diabetes, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer, or who are caregivers for someone with one of these diseases.
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Step aside, Dr. Google: Enter MedivizorChemoBrain Fog Jan 30, 2013

This is a streamlined website that is clean, uncluttered and easy to use. In less than three minutes, I set up a user name associated with my email account. Then, I answered a few questions about my present health condition and how I got here.
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According to says Tal Givoly, co-founder and CEO of Medivizor, when many people get sick, especially with serious or chronic disease that threatens their lives or their quality of life, they start doing research on the Internet. But how reliable is the information they find? An answer or solution to the problem is the foundation of Medivizor.
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Staying abreast of the latest developments regarding one's disease and finding reliable information is difficult. This startup does the legwork for you.
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Introducing Medivizor – My New Venture!Tal's Blog Nov 13, 2012

It’s been awhile since my last blog post. I apologize, I’ve been busy. I’ve spent most of my time helping several startups get off the ground, some of which you’ll hear more about very soon. Among these, and the one I’ve spent the bulk of my energy on, is Medivizor.
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